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In 2016, the global consulting services market was worth over $250 billion and that number is growing quickly. In addition to in-office consultations, many providers are incorporating an online consulting model as well. The problem facing these providers, however, is that the options available to track and facilitate payment for these online consultations are limited at best. Bitcoinist sat down with the Experty team to find out how their innovative blockchain-based consulting platform will revolutionize

TappaBit is different from most games in Bitcoin that is not one of the gambling variety. For people that want to play using Bitcoin but not leave it all entirely up to chance, TappaBit is an engaging Bitcoin game alternative. Also read: Peter Todd Double Spends on Coinbase Tappabit: Provably Fair The game is provably fair, through the use of mixing 3 client seeds, 3 server seeds, and 3 nonces, with the verify button easily

Bitcoin Gambling Guide, or BitcoinGG for short, is a website with one sole purpose: provide a single location to where anyone can read an unbiased review about the top Bitcoin gambling websites. Established in 2013 by Chris Evans and another developer that is working behind the scene, I had the opportunity to talk to Chris Evans about his project. 1. In your own words, what is Bitcoin Gambling Guide? Bitcoin Gambling Guide is the number

Satoshi’s Last Will is a film by Bitfilm, set in a world where Bitcoin is synonymous with payment and has achieved mainstream adoption. In this sci-fi, Satoshi has passed away, leaving his legacy in the hands of seven trustees. All is good until one of the trustees turns rogue, killing the others for their keys in order to keep the Bitcoin for his or her selfish reasons. Also read: Satoshi’s Last Will, Interview With Bitfilm For those

Colu specializes in making assets digital through the use of colored coins and the Bitcoin blockchain. Although the service is still in beta, Colu has already made a partnership with Revelator, a company that is building a rights management API that will help to alleviate many of the problems facing the music industry. Also read: Cloud Mining Provider Scrypt.cc Drains Bitcoin From User Balances I spoke to Mark Smargon, Co-founder and VP of Product, from Colu regarding what Colu

HashPlex is a company that specializes in hosting miner services, allowing home miners access to industry standard electricity rates in order to stay competitive. While their main focus is indeed the mining aspect of Bitcoin, the people over at HashPlex understand the importance of the Bitcoin network, which is especially seen by the debut of their new open source lightning hub. I talked to Bernard Rihn, CEO and founder, as well as Jasper Hugunin, their

The Law of Bitcoin is designed to be a reference book for any user looking for legal advice regarding implementing Bitcoin into their own company. With a lacking amount of solid legal information in this department, the book is a necessary for anyone looking to remain 100% complaint while transacting with Bitcoin. Also read: Mark Karpeles Admits to Tweaking Mt. Gox User Balances for Millions of Dollars Can you tell me a little bit

While the price and attention has subsided substantially, Litecoin has gone through a lot of the changes over the last couple of months. I’m here today with Andrew Vegetabile from the Litecoin Association to talk about things that have been happening in Litecoin in the past few months. Since our talk in February regarding LTCGear, how has Litecoin changed? There have been a number of activities and events that has happened since February between major

Coinbelly is a company focused on Bitcoin information; with a blockchain, news aggregator, and price charts, Bitcoin users will have no problem following transactions, Bitcoin price, or Bitcoin news. Coinbelly takes it one step further with their hardware wallet, allowing you to keep your Bitcoins safe. I’m here today with Alexander Kent from Coinbelly. Also read: Social Media Plays Pivotal Role in Bitcoin Media Consumption Can you tell me what Coinbelly is trying to

I had the chance to interview a professor of economics and CEO of an international investment group. As requested, the interviewee’s name will not be published. Instead, the interviewee is referred to as “Chris” in this article. Also read: Bitcoin Adoption To Thrive From SpaceX’s Internet-providing Satellites? Sergio: Have you heard about Bitcoin and what are your thoughts when you hear people talking about Bitcoin? Chris: I came into contact with this Bitcoin and altcoins

BitGo is a company known for its industry-leading security practices, such as its mult-signature technology. BitGo has made several partnerships due to their reputation of being able to easily secure holdings of Bitcoin, thanks to their technology. I was able to talk to Mike Belshe, the CEO at BitGo, regarding operations at BitGo and their recent announcement about partnering with Bitfinex. Also Read: Bitfinex and BitGo Partner Up to Offer First Ever Mult-Sig Exchange! How are

Bitfilm is a company that makes films for websites looking to increase revenue, traffic, or improve the aesthetic quality of a website. “A film makes your website much more attractive, it generates more traffic and more revenues. We know how to turn even the most complex and abstract matter into an entertaining movie. We are specialized in films for the Bitcoin and Blockchain industry. So if you run a Bitcoin-based business and want to make it more successful, Bitfilm will

A note from the Editor: In recent months, Factom has made a splash in the Bitcoin community. The goal of the Factom project is to create a “scalable data layer for the blockchain.” Essentially, the team wants to create a blockchain-based data management system that streamlines and simplifies businesses’ record-keeping systems. Factom has displayed the potential of their project through a proof of concept project that stored the entirity of Project Gutenberg on only four hashes of

Bitlanders is a new social network that pays people for their content. With bitLanders, users that post blogs, videos, images, and share the best content will have an extra income paid by the social platform. Also read: BitLanders: A Social Network That Pays You in Bitcoin Last week, Bitcoinist published an article review of this social network. This week, we decided have a conversation with the bitLanders Co-Founder and CEO, Francesco Rully. Where did you get the

While it was originally established in 2013, CryptoArt did not officially launch until March of 2014, making it about a year since CryptoArt has first opened their doors to the public. When talking to Troy Fearnow, Founder of CryptoArt, he mentioned that he had a background in finance as well as founding another website, Fine-Art.com. Troy stated that CryptoArt was a way for him to combine his passion for art and his interest in Bitcoin. What

BitWage is a company that allows you to receive a percentage of your paycheck in bitcoin. The company also provides assistance with legal papers. Additionally, it is not necessary to have a bank account to use Bitwage’s services. Amagi Metals and ChangeTip both use BitWage to pay their employees in Bitcoin, making it a well-known company in the Bitcoin space. I was able to talk to Jonathan Chester, the founder and Chief Operations Officer of BitWage, and

If you peer over to Litecointalk, a forum dedicated exclusively to Litecoin, LTCGear has been a rather infamous topic for the last couple of months. LTCGear started by a member by the username Beekeeper, also known by his real name Chris. When Chris started the service, members both senior and junior ravished over its profitability, legitimacy and was always out of stock due to these reasons. Then starting in December of last year, LTCGear started

Bitcoin Shop is a company that is trying to improve four main aspects of Bitcoin: Ways to shop with Bitcoin- with Bitcoin Shop The way you store Bitcoins – with BTCS Wallet The way you mine – with BTCS Mining Ways to exchange Bitcoin – BTCS Atms Through strategic partnerships, investments, and purchases they are doing just that. I’m here with Charles Allen, the CEO over at BTCS. Charles has big ambitions and rather than

On February 11th, DevCore Boston will be kicking off in District Hall, 75 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts . Sponsored by the Bitcoin Foundation, as well as several other prominent companies such as Circle and Blockchain.info, DevCore Boston will be a “series of developer roundtables aimed at building knowledge, widening understanding and deepening technical expertise to support the future development of Bitcoin Core”. I reached out to Sean Spence, the CEO over at EveryEventGives. The Bitcoin Foundation has partnered this

Bitcoin Store Starter is an interesting company that I stumbled upon over at BitcoinTalk. It’s availability and the software being entirely free will make it appealing to people wanting to start a online commerce store that accepts Bitcoin. I spoke with Aaron Farias, the CEO of Bitcoin Store Starter who is responsible for development and marketing. What does Bitcoin Store Starter offer? Bitcoin Store Starter is a custom software solution combining the features of WordPress,

Bitcoin Billionaire is an app created by FizzPow Games, and was published in partnership with Noodlecake Studios. Bitcoin Billionaire was released on the iOS App Store on November 6th, 2014, and was quite a hit with a average 5 star rating from 14,000+ reviews. Today, I’m here to talk with Michael Stockwell, the lead developer and founder of the game as well as FizzPow Games. Starting the game with a dilapidated office and rudimentary mining hardware, you

We at Bitcoinist have built up a good relationship with the team behind the Gems social messenger app. We ran into them while we were attending various conferences. The Gems team is fun, intelligent, friendly and are always glad to answer any questions. So drop a line and say hi to the developers on social media. We were also very happy that Daniel Peled made some time for us in his busy schedule to do an interview

Today we have a very interesting interview with the author of Bitshares 101, Max Wright. The release of Bitshares 101 happened last Thursday during which Bitshares was outlined. Bitshares is a community of independent Distributed Autonomous Company developers known as DAC. DAC is a free market company whose shares can be transferred from person to person over the internet without the use of a third party. Without further ado, the interview: In your words, what is